Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
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#2May I see the zine?
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#3land of the unfree
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#5Anyone got the actual indictment?
From linked https://freedes.net/jun-23rd-2026-press-release/ : "Sanchez Estrada, a 39-year-old artist, was found guilty on March 13, 2026, alongside eight codefendants who participated in an anti-ICE protest at the controversial Alvarado ICE detention facility. Under the auspices of “National Security Presidential Memorandum-7,” which was issued after the killing of Christian nationalist influencer Charlie Kirk, Sanchez Estrada was federally charged with “corruptly concealing a document or record” for moving a box of zines the day after the protest. Although he was not present at the protest, nor did he know about it, prosecutors argued that the content of the literature made it evidence of the defendants’ material support for terrorism, and shockingly alleged that the decision to move the box was a conspiracy between Sanchez Estrada and his wife."
Very .. British approach to linking people to "terrorism" on the flimsiest pretext.
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#6May I see the zine?
What difference does it make? The point being that nobody should be sentenced for transporting pamphlets, regardless of what's in them. And the 30 year sentence? This is absurd.
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#8Misleading title. The relevant sentence is this:
> "The prosecution claimed Sanchez moved the zines so they wouldn’t incriminate his wife, who attended a protest outside the Prairieland immigration detention center near Dallas, where a police officer was wounded by gunfire."
The "Texas man" in question was involved in evidence tampering in a case that involved the shooting of a police officer. The title here makes it sound like simply moving paper around is against the law.
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#9I'd like to say something.
But now that they are rounding people up, and Hacker News can be scraped and User Id's crosschecked with AI surveillance to dox.
I'm actually fearful, the war on free speech is working.
Re: Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
#10May I see the zine?
What difference does it make? The point being that nobody should be sentenced for transporting pamphlets, regardless of what's in them. And the 30 year sentence? This is absurd.
Because we should be able to examine the evidence ourselves. It would let us, as a free people, decide whether this was overreach or valid.